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PopNose9 (1.5M) Make that Wednesday evening – things are hectic here and will be until Friday morning, and which point I will reveal the IDs of BOTH these tracks! Bonus![…]

PopNose8 (1.5M) Sorry for the PopNose delay. I’ll be moving to a one-per-two-days system for a little while as I sort out a job move and a new PC, which means this will be up until Wednesday morning.[…]

Slight Slate piece that can’t decide which way it’s jumping on the question of whether pop stars write their own songs. If they don’t really – as the writer implies – then surely it’s not their fault that the songs[…]

KILL ALL HIPPIES: Your web guide to Glasto Rage –
– A conspiracy against students.
– Web designer gets the blues.
– Oasis newsroom not happy.
– Some excellent ideas from XRRF
– BBC quote provides silver lining.
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WIR SIND HELDEN – “Guten Tag” (aka PopNose7): Jerky new-wave pop pastiche by a group who recently swept the German-equivalent Grammies. Judging from scrappy translations and the few English-language mentions the band has got, WSH&#8[…]

Today’s ILM Highlight.[…]

BEGGAR AND CO. – “Somebody (Help Me Out)” (aka PopNose6). I saw this song mentioned on Marcello’s blog and then it popped into my head again reading the 80s soul discussion on Woebot. A spin-off from Brit jazz-funk group Light[…]

On the right, down below the weblog links you may now see a box called “Listening to”. This is an agglomeration of FT writers’ listen-to data so you can keep tabs on the yawning chasm between our trendy claimed tastes and the shite […]

Pitchfork on Bonnie Prince Billy: I think the new Bonnie Prince Billy album is quite – no, very – good. It’s re-recordings of his older Palace tracks in a warm, country-rockish style, faintly reminiscent of early-70s Dylan. Having m[…]